RT @peterktodd: The only sane thing to do is stop all trade with China. It's a dangerous fascist regime, on par with apartheid South Africa or Nazi Germany, and the time to stop it is now.
The only reason this hasn't happened yet is $ https://t.co/HwcLgBNc3L

RT @marasawr: «No information contained on any server located w/in China will be exempted […] No communication from/to China will be exempted. [N]o secrets. No VPNs. No private or encrypted messages. No anonymous online accounts. No trade secrets. No confidential data»
https://t.co/OpogHAmc2W

RT @marasawr: «No information contained on any server located w/in China will be exempted […] No communication from/to China will be exempted. [N]o secrets. No VPNs. No private or encrypted messages. No anonymous online accounts. No trade secrets. No confidential data»
https://t.co/OpogHAmc2W

The only sane thing to do is stop all trade with China. It's a dangerous fascist regime, on par with apartheid South Africa or Nazi Germany, and the time to stop it is now.
The only reason this hasn't happened yet is $ https://t.co/HwcLgBNc3L

It's going to be entertaining to watch my Fortune 250 figure out how to work with this.
We make big, expensive, technical things that have a lot of very-closely-held software on them. One current, big, internal effort is to encrypt the code on the controller, so that people can't dump it, or at least not modify it. What's going to happen when the Chinese government demands to escrow the signing keys for any product sold in their country? I fully expect that they will be handed over. That's pretty much a given. But what if they go further and demand to escrow the source code? That would get really interesting, really fast, for many reasons.

Also, how will they continue to block Skype chat history in the US, based on dodgy interpretations of SOX and related laws, yet allow the Chinese government full access to all the logs? What happens when the CEO chats in China, or someone chats at him from China? I suppose it will be Microsoft to the rescue here, with a giant tick-box in the Skype FOR BUSINESS admin panel for "segregate retention policy based on CHINA," which is precisely the sort of thing that continues to make them the big bucks. All of these hosted infrastructure pieces, like Office365 and GSuite, are going to need huge exceptions built into them. (Maybe they already do, and I'm just ignorant.)

Morons who thinks authoritarianism is good for development, read the history of the world. It is rare, statistically unlikely to get leaders like in China. Even in China, first few decades of Mao was disastrous. Those morons who think restrictions on rights and authoritarianism will bring prosperity should introspect.

> no one is higher than the government
People are higher than the Government. You know, those who actually put the politicians in power. Excess subservience to the Government is also a dangerous thing.

No they aren't. I'm not saying that democracy is useless and people have no power. What I am saying is that today, the government tells people that they are being watched and then there are protests, after this the government will spy on you covertly. Privacy has been dead since the dawn of the internet, you cannot simply remain anonymous anymore

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So China is dramatically reducing their digital security. Western hackers should use this opportunity for industrial espionage; they'll make bank while also helping China see the error of its ways, thus promoting democracy.

I don’t want to catastrophise and predict companies will leave China overnight, but surely they must be planning not just to diversify their manufacturing, but to cleanly and fully exit over the next decade?

I can’t see them putting up with this. (Edit: especially when you factor in shareholder pressure and contractual confidentiality obligations)

The right for privacy is guaranteed under Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But it's like empty words for our politicians who chicken out of applying pressure to China. It's time for coordinated international sanctions.

US companies simply won't transmit any sensitive info to any subsidiary or partner that is in China. Or rather, if they have any sense, they will do this. Time to re-shore the manufacturing that they outsourced to cheapo-china.

not sure what else they can do really. Common wisdom in the IT community as is for chinese business trips is to send a laptop with the bare minimum on it for whatever needs to be done, and then to shove it through the woodchipper when it gets back to the states.

Is there any reason this couldn't just be bypassed when satellite internet becomes widely available? It seems like you could just set up encryption through that network like you could through the old, wired internet, and China wouldn't be able to do much about it.